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SirPeale:

...without stitches.  Words of warning to people moving heavy equipment!

Today we had to move an eight foot pool table up a flight of stairs.  They're quite heavy, as you would imagine.  Easiest way is to do it twice.  Once with the body, and once with the slate.

So after moving the body up the stairs we go for the slate,  The slate has pockets, which are fairly safe places to grab. 

Safe if you're moving over a flat area, that is.  Not so safe when you're  trying to move up the stairs one step at a time.

Pinky got crushed between the edge of the step and the pocket.  I could tell within half a second that I needed stitches.

One trip to the ER later I have five stitches in my right pinky.  I'd drop a photo, but it's currently mummy-wrapped.

Lesson: even while doing things safely things can go wrong.

Bill Mote:

I had a transmission dropped on me; by my dad no less!  Similarly, we had both been pretty careful but when he slipped it away from the engine a burr sunk into his hand a he let go and jerked his hand away.  At least I caught it on my chest vs. having is crash/crack on the concrete floor.  LOL

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Chaos:

33 yrs???? Sometimes I can't go 33 days. I'll try to attach a pic of my best accident to date.
WARNING!!!!  NOT FOR WEAK STOMACHS 


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spacies:


SH1T dude,

You cut them fingers right off?

LOL

spacies:


Peale.

Bad luck on the stitches.

I have had LOADS of stitches. I was a freestyle BMXer back in the day and broke numerous bones, then I made a mistake and took up freestyle Motocross. On a BMX you do about 20mph but on a 'cross bike you do 60mph but do more than 3 times the damage when things go bad.

My bones hurt just thinking about it.

No more bikes for me.

Only accident I have had in the workshop is while grinding a bolt I slipped and my finger hit the grinding wheel and ground down the tip of my finger half way into the nail. I quickly grabbed it with my other hand and covered it because I didn't want to look.   :cry:   I went upstairs and when I released the pressure a jet of blood squirted about 4 feet. Looked great. LOL

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